BBC Studios
Culture Editor
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Job Details
Job Band
D
Contract Type
Full-time Perm
Department
BBC Studios
Location
London
Proposed Salary Range
£50,000 - £60,000 + London Weighting (£5,441) depending on relevant skills, knowledge, and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
About BBC Studios
A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio, and digital content.
Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.
Why Join the Team?
This is an opportunity to help lead the Culture team at one of the world’s most respected global brands. You’ll join a diverse, collaborative team dedicated to editorial excellence, innovation, and impact. As part of BBC Studios, you’ll help deliver trusted journalism and distinctive storytelling to millions worldwide while working in an environment that encourages creativity, professional growth, and purpose-driven work.
Your Key Responsibilities and Impact
BBC Studios is seeking an ambitious, skilled, and collaborative senior editor to lead the Culture team on BBC.com and the international BBC app. The ideal candidate will bring big creative ideas about how to shape and grow the culture features across platforms on bbc.com. This is an exciting opportunity to bring the best of the BBC's culture journalism to readers around the world.
The Culture team publishes a regular cadence of features, including text and video, providing lively analysis and thought-provoking context. The focus of the team is stories about arts, culture, entertainment, and history that matter to a global audience.
- Drive the growth and engagement of features on BBC.com and the BBC app with stories that inform and entertain.
- Manage a team of editors and journalists – be responsible for the team's performance and individual growth.
- Lead team meetings and be the main point of contact for the culture features team.
- Commission and edit articles from freelance writers. Develop a diverse network of trusted contributors and voices on BBC.com.
- Lead the culture features team offering across platforms, working closely with colleagues across digital video, social, newsletters, and design.
- Embrace innovation in both coverage and formats.
- Review and respond to analytics to understand story performance.
- Maintain a collaborative, team-player mentality, working toward collective goals alongside colleagues.
- Uphold the BBC’s rigorous editorial standards and best journalistic practices.
- Work closely and collaboratively with commercial teams on editorial projects that generate revenue to support the BBC’s larger mission.
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Essential Criteria
Your Skills and Experience:
- Extensive experience writing, commissioning, and editing digital arts and culture features.
- Experience managing a team of journalists and editors.
- A track record of producing high-quality arts, culture, or entertainment journalism.
- Experience commissioning and editing a diverse cross-section of freelance contributors.
- Experience working with different formats and across platforms, e.g., video, social, newsletters, podcasts.
- A proven ability to analyze, contextualize, and clearly communicate arts and culture stories to a general audience.
- An ability to develop distinctive editorial concepts that enhance the BBC’s global reputation while supporting commercial goals.
- Experience of using analytics tools and data to evaluate story performance and inform editorial strategy.
- Enthusiasm for the BBC’s journalism, storytelling, and values.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Desired But Not Required
- Experience developing ideas for an international, primarily North America-based audience.
- Experience working with commercial teams.
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Next Steps
We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest, we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.
Disclaimer
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge, and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks, which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
We are unable to accept applications via CV and only applications made online will be considered. Please click on the APPLY NOW button to proceed with your application.
Redeployment
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC, and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment, their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
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